The following is a list of Plugins I use on the Ill-Literati site.
Akismet: It’s a spam catcher, and it works very well, especially in conjunction with a good captcha plugin.
Copperpress: This plugin kicks ass. It integrates the Coppermine Gallery with your WordPress install. It automatically logs you into your Coppermine Gallery when you log into WordPress, and makes your images available to insert on posts and pages on your ‘write’ page through WordPress. Set up is easy, and it will automatically integrate and create logins for other users on your WP install. I have not been able to figure out how to use it as a general WP-MU Plugin, so I do need to activate it and configure it on each blog. But to be honest, I haven’t had much time to look into setting up for MU. That’ll be a summer project, unless someone else has some info/code for me. It was last updated for WP 2.3.2 but I have had no problems with it in latest updates (up to 2.5).
Homepage Excerpts: This nifty plugin lets you choose how many full posts you’d like to have on your homepage, and makes excerpts of the rest. I have it currently set to make the latest post full, and the rest just excerpts.
reCAPTCHA: This is a captcha plugin with a secondary purpose. It’s main purpose for you is to help block spam by making users leaving a comment, enter the two distorted words they see in an image. Bots aren’t supposed to be able to do that (yet). With reCAPTCHA, the words come from actual books, and what you’re somehow doing is helping to teach computers to read them words to digitize books. Which I sometimes think will just one day enable computers to easily defeat captcha. But I’m down for getting books digitized, so I guess we’ll just wait and see what happens.
Recent Comments Widget: This is a bit different from the standard widget. It lists the recent comments, but groups them by post title, which I like.
TTFTitles: This is one of my favorites. This plugin lets you turn text into fancy image graphics. It’s what I use for the blog title and blog description on this site, as well as for the post titles. You can upload just about any font you want, create new style, plug some code into your theme and there you have it. I’ve done some minor hacking to this plugin (another one I couldn’t get working in MU yet) and added my styles to the default list and set my default style as the default style, so that I don’t have to set them up on each and every blog in the MU install. And it seems to work pretty good.
As I add more plugins, I’ll post them here.
AB
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